I was sleeping on this podcast till now because I’m lazy. But yesterday I decided to go through the episodes/clips on YouTube and wow they are good! I’ve no idea how they manage to get so many awesome guests - Richard Wolff, Zizek, Chomsky, then you’ve got Nina Turner and Cornel West, there’s Boots Riley, it’s just incredible. And all of them are so honest and upfront and open when talking. I’ve never seen Wolff this animated and lively when talking to someone else or even on his own show! It’s incredible.
EDIT - What the fuck happened in the comments?
the only leftist podcast that isn’t too mean for my lib dad to willingly listen to which has gotta count for something
They’re the fastest growing podcast for leftist politics. Virgil comes from the previous most popular leftist podcast and Bri is the number one star in leftist media. It’s not too shocking they get everyone. It can get quite lib/electoralism at times, but some of those interviews are amazing. Boots was my favorite. He was doing everything in his power to get them off of electoralism and move the conversation towards unions and since then I’ve noticed a change in the content as well.
You always think that BJG is about to finally get it and then she comes back with a god awful lib take. Until she reads some Lenin she’s on the pay no mind list
Lol when the guests were like “No sympathy for those fuckers,” and BJG was like “Watch the tapes!”
No, sorry. Those are my “sarcastic” quotes.
If I quote directly I’ll try to do this or provide a source.
Everyone’s allowed to have a bad take every once in a while, she’ll get there just give her time
It seems impossible to me that she isn’t hiding her power level for the sake of the show and her credibility as a Blue Check Mark. She gets soooo close and ask such leading questions to her guest
If she’s afraid to go there because of a blue check on Twitter, then is it really want different than simply not being a socialist?
Seems to me her strategy is to platform people to her left/build a leftist pipeline. If she can pretend (or actually be, doesn’t really matter) to be a lib and also signal boost something like The Gravel Institute or Struggle Session, seems worth trying.
I could be convinced that building a leftist pipeline by pretending to a lib is a fool’s errand, and that bullying is the only effective method, but I haven’t been yet.
She isn’t hiding her power level. There’s no 6D chess. Grow up man. People are what they are and you’re just projecting.
If she’s a communist why would she keep wasting time on bourgeois state bullshit. Have you ever met a communist who doesn’t profess his beliefs proudly.
What credibility? Everyone in the establishment already hates her
